Food

Joan O’Connor, the manager of the Tilton Winter Farmers Market, envisions a bright, expansive space for the market. A place with atmosphere, a facility full of sunlight that is reminiscent of Boston’s Faneuil Hall. “I’d love a beautiful building,” she said. “Some kind of a building that gives you mental health in the dead of winter.” But as summer speeds …

The Food and Drug Administration is banning imports of some fresh cilantro from Puebla, Mexico, after a government investigation found human feces and toilet paper in growing fields there. The FDA announced the partial ban on Monday after cilantro imported from the state of Puebla was linked to 2013 and 2014 outbreaks of stomach illnesses in the United States. U.S. and Mexican health …

A federal appeals court Monday dismissed a legal challenge to a California law banning the sale, distribution and possession of shark fins. The legislation does not conflict with a 19th century law that gives federal officials authority to manage shark fishing off the California coast or significantly interfere with interstate commerce, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. The 2-1 ruling upheld …

New York City’s Health Department wants all chain restaurants to warn customers about products that are high in salt. The department voted recently to consider the proposal at a meeting of the Board of Health. All chain restaurants …

House votes to repeal meat labeling law Facing a costly backlash from Canada and Mexico, the House has voted to repeal a law requiring country-of-origin labels on packages of beef, pork and poultry. The 300-131 vote was an effort to avoid trade retaliation from America’s neighbors. The World …

Taco Bell says it will roll out Cap’n Crunch-covered balls of dough nationally – and that they’re exempt from its recent pledge to remove artificial ingredients. The company said it would remove artificial colors, flavors and high-fructose corn syrup from its menu by the end of this year. …

The mystery of Swiss cheese and its disappearing holes has been solved: The milk’s too clean. A Swiss agricultural institute discovered that tiny specks of hay are responsible for the famous holes in cheeses like Emmentaler or Appenzeller. …

The United Nation’s food body says the proportion of people suffering from hunger in the Asia-Pacific region has fallen by half in the last 25 years. The Food and Agriculture Organization said that using 1990 as a base year, when about 24 percent of the population in the …

A tabbouleh traditionalist will tell you: It’s all about the parsley. In the Middle East, it’s a fluffy mound of parsley, with relatively minimal amounts of that ingredient, bulgur, that seems to dominate Western versions of the dish. …

We supposedly moved to New Hampshire in 1994, but somehow my husband never sold his Brooklyn-based theatrical special effects company, so he’s in New York City a lot. Our daughter takes after her father. Instead of getting normal …